Nobody Knows the Trubel I've Seen

"Nobody Knows the Trubel I've Seen" is the 63rd episode of the Supernatural drama television series Grimm and nineteenth episode of season 3, which premiered on April 25, 2014, on the cable network NBC. The episode was co-written by David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf, and was directed by Norberto Barba.

Plot

A grieving and desperate Adalind tries to recruit Nick's help, so she can find her missing daughter, not knowing Kelly Burkhardt (Nick's mother) has taken the baby. When she finds out Kelly has left the town and with both Nick and Juliette refusing to help, an angry Adalind leave the house and then attacks violently Sean Renard in his garage and tells him she isn't sure if she ever would forgive him and ask for his help. When Renard tells her he doesn't know how, she warns him sometime she will "stop crying". Next day she visits Monroe and Rosalee and tells them what happened with her daughter Diana, Monroe and Rosalee are forced to comfort and accommodate her in their living room.

A mysterious young woman (Jacqueline Toboni) arrives Portland, she is assaulted by two wesen a Lausenschlange and a Klaustreich, who apparently killed her. However the young lady somehow escaped and uses the wesen's money to stay in a hotel room, where she frantically washes her scarred body the blood from her victims. Then she steals a pair of sneakers from a store, a delinquent see her and threat her, revealing she is a Skalengeck. The two start a fight, but the young killer defeats the Skalengeck and runs away from the scene.

In Europe Prince Viktor (Alexis Denisof) and Rispoli (Philip Anthony Rodriguez) are deducting what happened in Portland when they lost to Diana. Their talk is interrupted by the arrival of King Frederick, Renard and Eric's father, who wants to know which of his sons is the father of the baby and claims that her granddaughter needs to be raise in the castle. In Portland Adalind have a nightmare about Diana, and contacts Viktor willing to do anything to see her baby again. Viktor sees this as a chance and tells her that its time to return the favor to the Grimm who stole her powers. Later Adalind visit Renard, pretending to agree with the choice to leave her daughter. While Weston Steward watches them at distance.

Nick and Hank are called to a crime scene, the same where the young lady was attacked and where the bodies of her attackers lies. The evidence points there were three persons. When they visit one of the victims relatives, Nick finds out the victims were Wesen and that only a dangerous killer would have taken down those criminals. As the investigation process, Nick realizes that the suspect is a young lady and wonders if she is wesen. With the help of Monroe, the detectives track the killer and find her recent victim that dies by her wounds. Near the hotel where the suspect is staying, Nick, Hank and Monroe find the suspect and chase her. When Monroe woged in front of her, he recognizes her as a Grimm. Nick then realizes that she doesn't know anything about his true identity and powers, but since she refuses to talk, they take her in custody.

In the precinct, Nick and Hank find out her name is Teresa Rubel and she has committed a lot of crimes. After see some of Teresa's drawings Nick chooses to reveal her "the truth" by taking her to the aunt Marie's trailer. There she read the books and watch the weapons, and finally learn who she is. Nick then take Teresa to his home, where she introduce herself to Juliette by her nickname: "Trubel".

Reception

Ratings

The episode received a 1.2 18–49 ratings share and was watched by 4.39 million viewers, a marked decrease from the previous episode.^[1]

Critical reception

The episode was met with mixed to positive reviews.

Mary AnnSleasman of TV.com gave it a mixed review: "With just three episodes left in the season, Grimm seems no closer to resolving any of its marvelous messes. That's mostly why I'm concerned about Trubel—there's already so much going on in the stories that the show has been meticulously establishing all season. We didn't even get any Monrosalee wedding-planning this week! There's still time, though, and Grimm has always been pretty successful in the mad dash to the finish."^[2]

Nick McHatton from TV Fanatic gave the episode a rating of 3.5 stars of 5, adding that "Ultimately, this installment falls short of the stellar the standards set on Grimm Season 3. There's nothing much to Trubel yet and Adalind is mostly on a misery tour looking for Diana. With a few episode left in the season, I would be hoping momentum would begin to pick up rather than slow down."^[3]

Kevin McnFarland of The A.V. Club rated the episode a B, stating, "For the first time in a while, there’s a new recurring element of Grimm that I find greatly intriguing—and it’s about damn time Nick encountered a Grimm outside of his family to figure out how others of his ilk experience the world.."^[4]

References

External links

• "Nobody Knows the Trubel I've Seen" at the Internet Movie Database
• "Nobody Knows the Trubel I've Seen" at TV Guide.com